I recently shot some HD footage in a school using a PAL 1080i camera from Sony. Later, when editing the footage I noticed there was a slight stroboscopic effect on the material (a bit like what you see when shooting a CRT monitor or TV with a DV camera, but less pronounced). My guess is that it was caused by a difference between my capture frequency and some native frequency of the lights in the room. Is there any way in Final Cut Pro to correct for this. Is there a way to prvent the issue from ahppening while shooting, for example by adjusting shutter speeds or so?

Changing shutter speed can help, but it is not very likely to work. I have a method that works, but it won't work with most cameras. I can set the V1 to 1/30 shutter and shoot 30P so I still get the full framerate, but the motion blur is excessive for most purposes. No fluorescent light flickers as slow as 30 times a second, so 1/30 shutter will always work, but that's a really slow shutter and I would only use it in extreme circumstances.

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